Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 tv series)

Characters


Main Characters:

From left to right: Raphael, Leonardo (up), Donatello (down), Michelangelo

-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

A team of anthropomorphic mutated turtles who are the protagonists of the series:

• Leonardo/"Leo" (voiced by Jason Biggs): The oldest turtle/brother and the best ninjutsu student of Master Splinter.. He wears a blue mask and fights with two katana swords. He is the leader and watches a sci-fi cartoon series Space Heroes which annoys his brothers, especially Raphael 

• Raphael/"Raph" (voiced by Sean Astin): The second oldest turtle/brother and the hot-head. Raph often lets his impulsiveness get in the way of rational thinking. While hot-headed, he has a soft side, as seen by his interactions with his pet turtle Spike. He wears a red mask and fights with two sai.  He has a lightning bolt-shaped crack in his upper left plastron.

• Donatello/"Donnie" (voiced by Rob Paulsen): The third oldest/second youngest turlte/brother.He is in charge of the design and manufacture of all of the tools and weapons of the team. He has a a gap in his front two upper teeth (diastema) and is the tallest one. He wears a purple mask and fights with a bo staff which converts to a naginata via a blade inside one end of the staff. He also has a crush on April which his brothers tease him about.

• Michelangelo/"Mikey" (voiced by Greg Cipes): The youngest turtle/brother. A lover of video games, skateboarding, pranks and pizza. He is the least mature and is the shortest. Despite possessing a child-like innocence, he always brings his best game to a fight. He also has freckles. He wears an orange mask and fights with two nunchaku which convert into kusarigama via a blade inside if one of the sticks of each nunchaku and extra lengths of chain stored in the other.

Secondary Characters:

• April O'Neil (voiced by Mae Whitman): A 16 year-old teen girl and daughter of Dr. Kirby O'Neil.She likes to play video games and eat pizza. April befriends the turtles after the Kraang kidnap her and her father. After the Kraang got away with her father, April's aunt took her in and the turtles promised to help her find her father and take down the Kraang for good. In episode "Monkey Brains", Splinter offers to train her to be a kunoichi (female ninja) which she accepts. As the series progresses, her training starts to pay off. In the episode"TCRI", it is revealed that Kraang were not after her father, but they were after her for unknown reasons,yet.

• Master Splinter/Hamato Yoshi (voiced by Hoon Lee): Splinter was originally a human called Hamato Yoshi and lived in Japan where he became an expert of ninjutsu. When his friend Oroku Saki sought the affections of Splinter's wife Tang Shen, Saki wished to discredit Yoshi in front of her. Yoshi lost his temper and the altercation ended their friendship culminating in a battle that burned down Yoshi's home killing Tang Shen and their baby daughter Miwa. After moving to New York City, Yoshi had just purchased four pet turtles when he stumbled upon an exchange in an alley between two Kraang droids. Seeking to silence Yoshi before he could share what he had seen, a fight ensued and the canister the droids had been carrying smashed open splashing both Yoshi and his pet turtles with an alien chemical mutagen. As the result, Yoshi changed into a humanoid rat after having had contact with a rat upon entering an alley. Realizing he could no longer live a normal life topside, he retreated to the New York sewers where he raised his pets as sons and taught them the ancient Japanese fighting art of ninjutsu. 

Villains:

• Oroku Saki/Shredder (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson): One of the main antagonists of the series and leader of the Foot Clan. Once friends in Japan, Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi parted ways when both fell for Tang Shen who ultimately chose Yoshi. Saki's jealousy turned to anger and hatred, especially after Yoshi and Shen welcomed a baby daughter named Miwa. A final battle resulted in a fire that burnt down Yoshi's home, disfigured Saki, and killed Shen and Miwa. Oroku Saki became the Shredder and established the Foot Clan. Years later, Shredder learns that Splinter is alive and in New York after seeing the Hamato clan crest on a shuriken during a television news report. Seeking to finish his business with him, Shredder and his Foot Clan relocate to New York. The Turtles first encounter Shredder in "The Gauntlet"and he almost killed them, but the distraction of the newly-mutated Xever and Chris Bradford gave the Turtles the chance to escape. He is also Karai's father as seen in "New Girl in Town".

• The Kraang (voiced by Nolan North): One of the main antagonists of the series. The Kraang are a race of brain-shaped aliens from Dimension X that pilot robotic bodies. The Kraang have not mastered English and communicate in redundant speech. The Turtles learn that the Kraang have been abducting scientists so that they can help modify the mutagen's properties. In the episode "The Alien Agenda," the Kraang establish the World Wide Genome Project as a front while they were collecting the DNA of every animal and plant species on Earth. In "TCRI," it is revealed that the Kraang have their headquarters in the higher parts of the TCRI building. It is also revealed that the Kraang breath in a poisonous gas. When the Turtles get away when they failed to destroy the Kraang's portal, Michelangelo managed to obtain a Kraang data storage device which revealed that the Kraang are after April.

• Baxter Stockman (voiced by Phil LaMarr): An inventor who plotted revenge against a company called TCRI, after he was fired for spilling copier toner. The Turtles first encounter him in rudimentary battle armor, while he attempts to break into a building. The Turtles defeat him, but Stockman obtains Donatello's T-Pod, which contains a military-grade artificial intelligence chip, and incorporates it into his battle armor. The next time the Turtles run into Stockman, his battle armor has upgraded itself. Eventually, the Stockman battle armor and the T-Pod merge into a destructive robotic being, which Mikey calles it "The StockmanPod". The StockmanPod defeats the Turtles, causing them to flee. Using wisdom from Splinter about 'fighting the person inside the armor', the Turtles engage the StockmanPod again, and make use of a beehive to cause the StockmanPod to fall off a building. The Turtles deactivate the T-Pod and throw Stockman in the dumpster. Following the incident with the M.O.U.S.E.R.S., Dogpound brings Stockman to Shredder. Shredder threatened to kill Stockman for interfering with his plan to kill the Turtles, but spares him and comments on how his intelligence could be useful. In "The Alien Agenda", Baxter creates a water-breathing rig and his prototype mechanical legs for Fishface. After Karai returned to Shredder's hideout with the Kraang body and the controls to it, Stockman gets to work on studying the machine so that he can get Fishface's mechanical legs operational and eventually succeeds in the episode "The Pulveriser".

• Karai (voiced by Kelly Hu) : A teen member of the Foot Clan, an expert kunoichi and the daughter of the Shredder. She first appears in a duel with Leonardo, while the other turtles are out looking for Snakeweed. She tries to encourage Leonardo to break the rules for a change, daring him to help her steal a sword. When Leonardo's life is threatened by Snakeweed and he asks for her help, Karai kicks a knife toward him (which helps him break free), which he interprets as an act of friendship but which Raphael considers malicious. She later attacks the turtles at the Kraang's World Wide Genome Project. Afterwards she escaped with the Kraang robot body and presented it to Shredder and Baxter Stockman who gets to work studying the technology. Shredder is impressed and assigns her to learn more about the Kraang so that he can use whatever information is gathered about them in his war against the Turtles.

• Dr. Victor Falo/Rat King (voiced by Jeffrey Combs): A scientist working  on an experiment involving a combination of mutagen and monkey DNA. Believing that he was close to developing a neurochemical that could make him psychic, he tests it on his colleague Dr. Rockwell, transforming him into a monkey monster who can read emotions. After the turtles figure out that Falco was lying about Rockwell's involvement in the research, they confront him. Falco injects himself with the chemical, and is able to predict the turtles' every move. Donatello figures out how to close off his mind from Falco to defeat him. In the end he escapes. In "I, Monster", Falco is destitute but has salvaged some mutagen and has recreated the psychic chemical in his rat infested lab. An accident with the chemical gives him psychic control over all the rats in the city, including Master Splinter. Falco calls himself the 'Rat King' and attempts to take over New York with his legion of rats. He manipulates Splinter into fighting the Turtles, but Splinter frees himself from mind control and defeats the Rat King.

• Chris Bradford/Dogpound (voiced by Clancy Brown): A famous martial artist and  a member of the Foot Clan. After his first encounter with the turtles, he befriends with Michelangelo on a social media website in an attempt to entrap the turtles and Splinter, going so far as to teach Mikey his secret kata, called "The Death Dragon". He later captures Mikey as a bait for his brothers to rescue him and lead the Foot to Splinter. However, the plan fails after Splinter recognizes the 'Death Dragon' move during Raphs' and Leos' sparring match. Bradford is defeated by Mikey's use of the 'Death Dragon' before he and Xever are flushed down the sewers. In "The Gauntlet", Bradford and Xever go after the turtles again and are exposed to mutagen. As Bradford was previously bitten by Shredder's pet Akita Hachiko, the mutagen transforms him into a spike-backed dog-like mutant with a large left arm, acute senses, and super-strength called Dogpound.

• Xever/Fishface (voiced by Christian Lanz): Xever was an imprisoned Brazilian street thug until Shredder freed him and indoctrinated him into the Foot Clan. Shredder orders him to assist Chris Bradford in finding Splinter. During a battle in "The Gauntlet", Xever is exposed to mutagen just like Bradford. As Xever previously touched an exotic fish, the mutagen transforms him into the fish-like mutant called Fishface. After his transformation, Fishface lives in the waters within Shredder's hideout. In "The Alien Agenda", Baxter Stockman creates a water-breathing rig for Fishface and mechanical legs that Baxter tries to get working. In the episode "The Pulverizer," Fishface gains full control of his robotic legs.